9 Conspiracy Theories That Actually Happened

By Jo Humphreys, Published on May 19, 2016

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Media Control

The conspiracy theory that the government controls the media and everything surrounding it is no new one, and in fact has been around for decades with a computer program going by the name of COINTELPRO that seemed to back the idea that the conspiracy was true. The letters in the name are meant to stand for covert and occasionally illegal projects that FBI undertook, specifically between the period of 1956 and 1971. Projects reported to target icons such as Martin Luther King Jr., and also those considered as part of the ‘New Left’ movements as well as anyone supporting feminism and those opposing the Vietnam War.